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<image:caption><![CDATA[ BIRDCODE will open in Hanover on September 16 at 1978 Washington Street. ]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Heavily deer-browsed vegetation (left) and rapidly thinning vegetation along a deer trail (center) on the Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge, Nantucket. A heavily used deer bedding site (right) near Surfside Beach, Nantucket that has lost all of its ground vegetation allowing sand to wash or blow into the ocean.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Deer are increasingly affecting coastal ecosystems across eastern Massachusetts, where high populations can damage vegetation, expose bare ground and accelerate erosion in sensitive dunes and salt marshes.]]></image:caption>
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